Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun de_forest

1 sense of de forest

Sense 1
De Forest, Lee De Forest, Father of Radio -- (United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961))
       INSTANCE OF=> electrical engineer -- (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb de_forest

1 sense of deforest

Sense 1
deforest, disforest, disafforest -- (remove the trees from; "The landscape was deforested by the enemy attacks")
       => clear -- (remove; "clear the leaves from the lawn"; "Clear snow from the road")